Clinical laboratories still face uncertainty and the difficult decision of whether to start the work needed to comply with ...
Litigation against the FDA's Final Rule on lab-developed tests (LDTs) is causing uncertainty to rise as the US regulator gears up for a legal clash with the lab industry. Since the FDA revealed ...
The pathologists group wants the regulation terminated in light of an executive order from President Trump that calls for ...
2024 –The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule has reclassified laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices, according to Avalere. The rule leads to a paradigm shift that ...
The FDA’s final rule for lab-developed tests (LDTs) is in litigation, and a district court decision may be shortly in the works.
Marty Makary, President Trump’s pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will testify before the Senate Health, ...
The routine use of software to interpret the results of lab-developed tests (LDTs) leaves clinical labs in a complicated spot in 2025 thanks in no small part to an ongoing lawsuit over the U.S. FDA’s ...
But LDTs have grown in use over the years, as have concerns over their lack of regulatory oversight. Common LDTs today include tests for COVID-19, blood level tests and tests for drug abuse. While ...
An example of these ongoing threats recently materialised in the FDA’s final rule on laboratory-developed tests (LDTs). This recent change, which will be phased out in four years, categorises ...
We discussed the details of the LDT Final Rule in a previous Insight, explaining that as of the May 6, 2025 Phase 1 deadline FDA will expect all laboratories that manufacture LDTs to comply with ...